Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
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Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again.
A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. Howard's End is on the Landing charts the journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.
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Really enjoyable read about Susan Hill's quest to read Only from home for One year, I wish sometimes I did the same as it might save me some money. Love the essays on various books and her thoughts on them, and being a book lover I can agree to a lot of what she says, how often we buy books based solely on there jacket/cover or because it was on a list of top books and buy into the hype, when in reality it sits on a shelf lonely and unread for months or years. The one thing most people hate is the name dropping in this book, I must be the exception as I enjoyed it and her stories on meeting classic authors and her thoughts and experiences with them. Fascinating to me - All in all a pleasure to read.
